A dull and terribly cast Technicolor extravaganza that cashes in on the 1940s film audience's appetite for movies set in exotic and foreign locations.
Only this exotic and foreign location was completely built in a studio, with the plastic, garish results you would expect. This movie is so boring I can barely muster up the energy to say anything about it, and it's hard for me to believe anyone would enjoy watching it. I guess if you're a fan of a particular star in it, like Marlene Dietrich, for example, or Ronald Colman, there's at least that. Not much else to recommend it.
"Kismet" scraped together four Academy Award nominations in 1944, but back then nominations in all of the technical categories were tossed out like confetti, so they don't mean much. Nevertheless, it scored in the categories of Art Direction (Color), Cinematography (Color), Dramatic or Comedy Score, and Sound Recording. It didn't win anything, which is as it should be.
Grade: D.
Only this exotic and foreign location was completely built in a studio, with the plastic, garish results you would expect. This movie is so boring I can barely muster up the energy to say anything about it, and it's hard for me to believe anyone would enjoy watching it. I guess if you're a fan of a particular star in it, like Marlene Dietrich, for example, or Ronald Colman, there's at least that. Not much else to recommend it.
"Kismet" scraped together four Academy Award nominations in 1944, but back then nominations in all of the technical categories were tossed out like confetti, so they don't mean much. Nevertheless, it scored in the categories of Art Direction (Color), Cinematography (Color), Dramatic or Comedy Score, and Sound Recording. It didn't win anything, which is as it should be.
Grade: D.